Please join us for a presentation, display, and conversation put on by our artist-in-residence, Sofia Falcon. Sofia will present a digital project, followed by a conversation. This project documents one diasporic Armenian’s efforts to connect with and documents her history. Through research into her own family and roots, the artist and designer created a prototype for a web app that facilitates the documentation of personal history. This app will continue as a collaborative project with her partner, Alfonso Gober, as part of their studio – Merciba (merciba.com). It seeks to produce an empathetic user experience that allows people to easily add stories, photos, videos, research and information that come together as a full and rich history without the person needing to explicitly set out to do so. This becomes a 21st-century family album and miniature history museum, to be passed down for future generations.
